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In the 1989 Upper Deck baseball set, Ken Griffey Jr. was selected to be featured on card number one. [28] The decision to make Griffey Jr. the first card was reached in late 1988. A teenage employee named Tom Geideman was the one who suggested the use of Griffey as its choice for the number-one card. [29]
Fleer also released factory sets of their baseball cards from 1986-92. Like the Topps factory sets, they came in colorful boxes for retail and plainer boxes for hobby dealers. The 1986 set was not sealed, but the 1987-89 sets were sealed with a sticker and the 1990-92 sets were shrink-wrapped.
Competitors such as Score and Topps neglected to include a card of Griffey in its 1989 base set, but later included him in their traded issues. Such neglect helped Upper Deck gain exposure due to the popularity of Griffey in the 1989 MLB season. Donruss and Fleer included Griffey rookie cards in their respective base sets, but they were never ...
DC Comics (Impel, SkyBox, Topps, Upper Deck, Rittenhouse) DC Comics Epic Battles (Cryptozoic, 2014) DC Bombshells Series 1–3 (Cryptozoic, 2017–19) DC Cosmic Cards: Inaugural Edition (Impel, 1994) DC Cosmic Teams (SkyBox, 1993) DC's The New 52 (Cryptozoic, 2012) DC's The Women of Legend (Cryptozoic, 2013) Deadpool (Upper Deck, 2018)
Topps and Upper Deck are the only two companies that retained production licenses for baseball cards of major league players. In a move to expand their market influence, Upper Deck purchased the Fleer brand and the remnants of its production inventory. After purchasing Fleer, Upper Deck took over production of the remaining products that were ...
By RYAN GORMAN A massive earthquake that struck the Bay Area on October 17, 1989 forever changed the region, and potentially altered the course of baseball history. The 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta ...
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